“Anyone having these desires will make these researches.”
About his own scientific work. Quoted in Muriel Rukeyser, Willard Gibbs (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1942), p. 431.
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Source: Trent's Own Case (1936), Chapter XXI: "Aunt Judith Knits"

“I am grim of mind and wrathful of spirit and I have no desire to be nice to anyone.”
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As quoted in "Sayings of the Week" in The Observer [London] (15 April 1934)

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On boxing
“Anyone who rushes toward an unknown peril simply to satisfy a desire for excitement is a fool.”
Part 2, Chapter 3 (p. 78)
Today We Choose Faces (1973)

Book 1, Chapter 39
Discourses on Livy (1517)
Context: Anyone who studies present and ancient affairs will easily see how in all cities and all peoples there still exist, and have always existed, the same desires and passions. Thus, it is an easy matter for him who carefully examines past events to foresee future events in a republic and to apply the remedies employed by the ancients, or, if old remedies cannot be found, to devise new ones based upon the similarity of the events. But since these matters are neglected or not understood by those who read, or, if understood, remain unknown to those who govern, the result is that the same problems always exist in every era.

“It is so strange - if anyone takes my name, I have the ability to make them famous.”
From interview with Anshul Chaturvedi